Hyperdocs (Multimedia Text Sets) - Lisa Highfill

Multimedia Text Sets: The Gateway to HyperDocs

Lisa Highfill

Text sets: Not a digital worksheet - Content and information to think, notice, wonder and add to the padlet forum (8-10 minutes to explore the text set and question). Filter out questions - Can you Google it? We are looking for open questions. Explore and Choose (choose what you/they learn about for that day) an open question together - The question we choose together is going to be our focus question for that day and for that week you do this to start off each session with.

We wondered what the end goal was. We did not feel as though we had a purpose. Too Broad? - This is on purpose - Teach the children to be a learner - Learn to dive into it and be interested in the information we are learning, in the stories that are being told by the refugees. Can't put a point (mark) on your curiosity. You can choose to do 6 squares or only 1. Whatever you can do in 8-10 minutes. To much time leads to looking at all the squares and then give up.

Inspire curiosity - Have the children moved away from the text set and wanted to do their own research? - Let this happen. They have used initiative and wanted to do further research. 

Presentation: How do you present your information so that children want to participate and are interested in the work they need to do. Images (what images can you use to hook them in). Separate the images. Make the links simple and easy to understand. 

When to use: Do not overdo it. If you have a book (Girltopia for example) you could use this for the whole term on developing the background knowledge about the book before we even start it. Could use when starting a unit (Turangawaewae or Inquiry). For new teachers at a school could use this as a way of finding out information about where to get a reliever, staffroom, general school rules etc. 

Extension: Students to create the next text set. Have you heard, seen, been told something that you would like to add to the next text set? They can add to (make a copy) or create their own text set about a topic of their choice or something given to them. 

Overall: Give the kids the information first - Put the idea onto the kids - build background knowledge first - they need to build skills of curiosity and how to wonder. Let them ask the questions that you can then unpack and work through together. Let them be accountable for their learning.